Action Taken Report on the Minutes of the 28th SCOVA meeting held under the Chairmanship of Hon’ble MOS(PP) on 27.06.2016

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S.No

Issue

Discussion held during previous meeting

Action Taken

1

Para 4(i) of the minutes:-

Revision of PPOs of Pre-2006 Pensioners
.

CPAO intimated that 5035 PPOs are yet to be revised. Out of
these, 75% of the cases pertain to the pre-90 pensioners
details for which are not available with the
Ministries/Deptts/PAOs. The list of such pensioners has been provided to the
Banks/Ministries/Departments.
Details of such pensioners are
also available on the website.
CPAO requested the Pensioners
Association to reach out to the
pensioners and co-operate in the process.
Secretary(P&PW)
asked CPAO to take up the
matter once again with banks
and concerned Departments/Ministries for
early revision of PPOs .

CPAO

Status of Revision of PPOs for Pre-2006 pensioners as on
05.01.2017 is as under:-

Total Cases

Revised authority issued by Mins/Deptts

PPOs yet to be revised

3,98,358

3,95,091

3267

For remaining 3267 cases revision by banks have already
been taken up. Revisions by Departments/PAOs could not be
done for want of relevant records. In this regard a meeting
of CGA with CCAs was convened on 11.11.2016 and following
decision were taken:-

(i) CPAO would prepare fresh list of live pending cases on
basis of e-scrolls which would be provided to concerned
Ministries/Departments to review the pendency. If any
pensioner represent for revision of his/her pension. The
same would be revised on verification of records provided
by him/her.

(ii) CPAO will also provide list of pending cases to the
banks to check the genuineness of these cases on basis of
KYC records available with them.

Ministry of Defence has shown Nil pendency. However:-

(i)One of the Defence Pensioners Associations said that
there are discrepancies in data, especially in case of Air
Force Pensioners.

(ii)Pensioners Association form Ambarnath has said that
most of the retirees have not get their revised PPOs and
that PCDA(P), Allahabad is not acknowledging their
reminders. Secretary(P&PW) asked representatives of
CGDA to hold a meeting of Pensioners and Officers of
PCDDA(P), Allahabad in Allahabad to assess the situation
and report outcome to DoPPW.

Ministry of Defence

DOPPW held two review meetings under the chairmanship of
secretary (P&PW) to discuss pending issues of Defence
Pensioners on 27-09-2016 and 20-12-2016.

Status of revision of PPOs for Pre-2006 Air Force
pensioners is as under:-

Total Cases

Revised authority issued

PPOs yet to be revised

48,245

45,877

2368

Information is being retrieved from e-scrolls of CPPCs of
Banks and these 2368 cases would be revised by 31.12.2016.

Further, there are about 15,000 cases for which information
on whether they are of Pre-2006 or Post -2006 is not
available. Secretary (_&PW) asked Department of
Ex-servicemen Welfare to take up the matter with the CPPCs
of the concerned Banks, so that the 15,000 cases may be
revised by the first week of February, 2017. He also asked
to share the list of 48,245 cases with Defence Pensioners
Associations so that they can tally it with list available
with them.

⇒ PCDA(P) Allahabad have informed that they have issued
approximately 1966 PPOs in respect of civilian employees of
Ordnance Factory Ambarnath. To sort out the issue, PCDS(P)
Allahabad called a meeting on 20.10.2016 in DPTI Allahabad,
but the representatives of Association did not turn up for
the meeting. Again, PCDA(P) Allahabad approached the
association for the meeting, but the same could not be held
due to non-approval of TA/DA for which PCDA(P) Allahabad is
not competent authority to sanction. Further, CGPA,
Ambarnath on 03.11.2016 intimated that approx. 1500 members
of their association have received corr. PPOs.

Department of Telecom informed that 42 more PPOs have been
revised. In remaining cases no records are available with
the Department.

Department of Teleccom

Status of revision of PPOs as on 31.12.2016 is as under:-

Total Cases

Revised authority issued by Mins/Deptts

Total Pendency

203

10

193

Out of these pending 193 cases:-

(i)Details are not available in respect of 42 cases.

(ii)E-scroll has not been generated in respect of 48 cases.

(iii)Pendency due to other reasons-103

Ministry of Railways has shown Nil pendency. One of the
pensioner Association informed that format of DoPPW is not
being followed in the PPOs issued by Ministry of Railways
and pay scale and last pay drawn by the pension is not
being indicated therein. Secretary(P&PW) directed the
representatives of Ministry of Railways to ensure that the
prescribe format is adhered to.

Ministry of Railway

Steps have already been taken by Ministry of Railways to
incorporate the details of last pay drawn and the pay scale
in the PPO. Further, steps are also being taken to
incorporate the details of number of increments drawn in
the pay scale at the time of retirement for future
references.

All organization were asked to take all steps to complete
the revision process in the next month and close the issue
finally as we have now to get ready for revision based on 7th CPC recommendations.

( Action: CPAO, Ministry of Defence, Ministry of
Railways and Department of Telecom)